Christophe Jalil Nordman

TL;DR: Kuepie et al. as discussed by the authors used a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa to estimate the private returns to education among representative samples of workers in seven economic capitals (Abidjan, Bamako, Cotonou, Dakar, Lome, Niamey and Ouagadougou).

TL;DR: Baldwin-Edwards et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the impact of return migration on the benefits and costs associated with migration and pointed out that migration can lead to other forms of beneficial transfers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore whether forced redistribution, i.e. abusive demands by the kin, affects the allocation of capital and labor to the household firm and find some evidence that family and kinship ties within the city rather enhance labor effort and the use of capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed indicators of vulnerability in employment in seven economic capitals of West Africa and studied their links with individual incomes, showing that vulnerability compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector, in the upper tail of the earnings distribution and particularly in the circumstance of visible underemployment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured, compared and analyzed gender and ethnic earnings gaps in seven West African capitals using data from an original series of urban household surveys, and found that gender earnings gaps are large in all the cities in their sample with significant variations across cities.